Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock. At first Sarlie bought 70,000 shares with his own and borrowed money. He sold 20,000 shares to Silberstein and agreed to sell the other 50,000 after the annual meeting-at a profit of $369,200. When his computations showed that Silberstein was still short some 60,000 shares of what he needs, Sarlie said he bought this amount in the open market at up to $60 a share. Silberstein was glad to buy it from him at $68.87½, thus giving Sarlie another $532,500 in profits...
Cord was not the only one to make a killing on the deal. The claims had been discovered in 1953 by a La Sal, Utah ranch foreman named Zeke Johnson, whose son Jimmy was one of Steen's first miners. Steen, short of cash, had asked Jimmy Johnson to find a camp cook, and Jimmy talked his mother into taking on the job. In return, Steen gratefully told the Johnsons to look over some promising rock formations ten miles north of Mi Vida. Zeke Johnson did, and staked out his claims. They were so promising that Cord...
Died. John Middleton Murry, 67, British critic, author, editor, husband of short-story writer Katherine Mansfield; of a coronary thrombosis; in London...
Died. Josephine (Sherwood) Hull, 71, dumpling-shaped character actress (Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, The Solid Gold Cadillac) who modestly tapped fame at 55 ("I'm short and fat and funny, you know, and not easy to fit into a play"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
This is a brilliantly written first novel, vastly (and sometimes sadly) amusing. So far, Author John Cheever, 44, has been content for a quarter-century to write excellent short stories, most of them about New Yorkers whose fears, despairs and inadequacies assail them in weary moments of truth. But now he has tackled the Wapshots, infinitely bigger game demanding stronger writers' weapons. Cheever has them...